Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I’m essentially a theatre trained actor and that’s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I’m very lucky.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.